Clay Sculpt 2026: Everything Announced and What It Means
Clay announced three things at its Sculpt conference in San Francisco on October 8, 2026: an agent-first way to build campaigns in Clay, a visual builder called Clay Workflows that is in beta for all users right now, and an Inbound SDR Agent that is preview-only behind a waitlist. No pricing was announced for any of the three. Here is what each one actually does, who can use it today, and what it changes for your GTM stack.
What did Clay announce at Sculpt 2026?
Sculpt was Clay's first big conference, held October 8 in San Francisco with about 2,000 attendees from 30 countries. Three product announcements came out of it, each at a different stage of readiness:
| Announcement | What it is | Who gets it now |
|---|---|---|
| Agent-first building | An agent plans, runs, and improves plays from an outcome you describe | Sculpt attendees today, early access users in the coming weeks |
| Clay Workflows | A visual canvas where steps branch, loop, run code, or call an agent | Beta for all Clay users now, full launch this fall |
| Inbound SDR Agent | Voice agent that qualifies inbound leads and demos your product in a sandbox | Preview only, waitlist for pre-beta partners |
What is the agent-first way to build in Clay?
Instead of assembling tables, formulas, and enrichment columns by hand, you describe the outcome you want and an agent plans the play, runs it, and keeps improving it. It pulls context from Knowledge Hub, which holds your ICP, buyer personas, and positioning, learns from campaign results, suggests ICP changes, and can even schedule itself to check back on performance.
This is the same direction the whole category is sprinting. Apollo shipped its AI GTM system last week, and ZoomInfo bought DoubleO.ai to build Agent Teams. The spreadsheet-with-superpowers era of Apollo, ZoomInfo, and Clay is turning into a prompt box with a quota. The practical takeaway: your edge shifts from knowing the tool to having clean ICP docs, positioning, and data the agent can actually use.
What are Clay Workflows, and can you use them today?
Yes. Clay Workflows is in beta for all Clay users now, with a full launch planned for this fall. It is a visual canvas for complex plays where steps can branch, loop, run code, or call an agent. You can build workflows in natural language or through a coding agent's CLI, trace runs record by record, fix a problem and re-run it in bulk, and write results back to Audiences.
Our advice: opt in now, but test on one contained play, not your main pipeline. Workflow runs touch live records, and a loop that misfires at Clay scale is expensive to clean up. If you want help designing agent workflows that do not blow up your CRM, that is literally what our workflow agents build does.
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What is Clay's Inbound SDR Agent?
It is the most ambitious of the three and the furthest from your hands. The Inbound SDR Agent qualifies inbound leads through a voice conversation, then demos your product in a sandbox matched to each lead's use case. It learns from your best sellers' call recordings and recommends changes to your ICP, positioning, or competitive story based on what it hears.
It is preview only. Companies can join a waitlist to become pre-beta partners, and Clay has published no timeline or pricing. That puts Clay squarely in the AI SDR lane, which until now belonged to the sales engagement vendors. If you are evaluating AI SDRs this quarter, start with what already exists and works: our AI SDR prospecting engine walks through the stack we deploy for clients.
What should Clay users do right now?
Three moves. First, turn on the Workflows beta and rebuild one existing play as a workflow, so your team learns the model before the full launch. Second, only join the Inbound SDR waitlist if you have call recordings and documented positioning for it to learn from, because an agent trained on nothing produces nothing. Third, watch your credits. Clay announced no pricing for any of this, and agent runs consume credits in ways that are hard to predict, so pilot with hard caps.
Context worth knowing: Clay raised a $115 million Series D at a $7.1 billion valuation in September. Agent features are how that valuation gets justified, which means they will be pushed hard. Adopt on your schedule, not theirs. If you want a second opinion on where agents fit in your stack, talk to an expert.
Frequently asked questions
When and where was Clay Sculpt 2026?
October 8, 2026, in San Francisco, with about 2,000 attendees from 30 countries. It was Clay's first Sculpt conference.
Is Clay Workflows available now?
Yes, in beta for all Clay users, with a full launch planned for fall 2026. You can build workflows visually, in natural language, or through a coding agent's CLI.
How do I get access to Clay's Inbound SDR Agent?
You cannot use it yet. It is in preview, and companies can join a waitlist to become pre-beta partners. No launch date or pricing has been announced.
Did Clay announce new pricing at Sculpt 2026?
No. None of the three announcements came with pricing. Since Clay runs on credits, assume agent and workflow runs will consume them and set caps during any pilot.
Sources: Clay, Sculpt 2026 recap (October 8, 2026); Dealroom, Clay Series D.
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